Comments on: Copy-Taking Culprit http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/ Parliamentary plots and conspiracy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Póló http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-49971 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:23 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-49971 That explains it, then.

]]> By: tom mauchline http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-48039 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:03:14 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-48039 i just read this on pop bitch
i know its a lil out of date but i thought it was illuminating

Labour’s smear scandal and the President

The News of the World landed the McBride-
Draper Tory smear email story so it was weird to
see on Sunday they didn’t run with it on the
front page. Instead the tabloid had a
bizarre headline, “Obama’s brother in sex quiz”,
which sounds like something Jacqui Smith’s
husband would watch on TV, but was in reality
a random story about Obama’s half-brother being
refused a visa to enter Britain.

Even more weirdly, the story was not written
by a NOTW journalist but bylined Gloria De Piero,
GMTV’s Political Editor. De Piero is a close
friend of Derek Draper, a colleague of his
wife Kate Garraway, and an ex-flatmate of Damien
McBride’s then-boss Tom Watson.

So, surely a coincidence that this was the front page
story? Otherwise I guess we’d have to assume that
the uncalled for and unnecessary smearing of the
family and reputation of the world’s most popular
politician is acceptable to the Labour Party now?

]]> By: Cheer up http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47635 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:47:37 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47635 Saving those for the shredder.

]]> By: anon126 http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47529 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:10:05 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47529 Guido will never get his answer. They’ll tell him that it will cost too much (though how expensive to get an assistant to explore an email history on a server?). You see they think they are above the law, and to be fair to them, they get away with fiddling expenses so they might have a point.

The only way Guido could get the info, in my opinion at least, is to sue for libel. This would allow all emails to be explored under threat of contempt of court….but that would never happen as because of expense….so labour get away with it again.

shame though

]]> By: Sunday Morning http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47523 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:04:51 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47523 Spin existed before 1997. Who can forget that unbelieveable decision by the BBC to lead their main news bulletin with a speech made by a Leader of the Oppositon (as Blair was then) to his party when just about every other news organisation in the world was leading on the acquittal of OJ Simpson?

]]> By: Cheer up http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47477 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:30:56 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47477 Today’s word is LIQUIDITY.

Definition:

Liquidity – when you look at your retirement funds and wet your pants.

]]> By: Avigdor Lieberwoman http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47469 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:24:22 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47469 Racist? Me?
Sexist pig? Me?
Warmonger? Me?
Yes on all three counts. You got me!

]]> By: Anonymous http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47452 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:10:47 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47452 Love it!

Can’t we do it as ‘Mandleson’s Balls’..please?

]]> By: It doesn't add up... http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47390 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:32:16 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47390 Quick’s briefing note that he showed to Downing Street photographers had a prominent item about Media Strategy on page 1. This was indeed all about deflecting from bad news. You may recall that, despite the need to suddenly advance the arrests, TV cameras managed to be in attendance to provide footage to occupy the newsreels.

]]> By: It doesn't add up... http://order-order.com/2009/04/21/copy-taking-culprit/#comment-47380 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:23:26 +0000 http://www.order-order.com/?p=6895#comment-47380 I suspect that they were indulging in “activities incompatible with their status” – a well worn phrase in the case of alleged diplomatic spies, but in this case, it means being a shelf stacker (i.e. economic migrant) while on a student visa, and not attending a proper course of study. Of course, many of them probably shouldn’t have been granted visas in the first place if the government had its act together over bogus educational establishments.

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